me

As a missionary for my church I lived in Venezuela for two years, from 2000 to 2002. We could communicate with our family via snail mail. However, a year and a half into my mission, we were given permission to use email.

It had been a year and a half since I had last touched a computer. As a result I had forgotten my passwords and usernames. I therefore went to Hotmail and tried to make up another account. But every time I came up with a name, I was told it'd have to have like seven numbers after the name, like "Iluvmonkeys0923." Lame. So I kept trying and trying... but to no avail. I kept thinking to myself, "This is really lame..." And then inspiration stuck.

I live in LA along the Miracle Mile district with my lovely wife of three years. She's a hairstylist in Manhattan Beach and I'm going to school at Cal State Long Beach as a pre-optometry Spanish major, formerly a Studio Art major. I do not own a Honda Element but I dream of the day I will. I got a Magellan eXplorist 500 for Christmas 2006 ("so you won't get lost when you go backpacking") and two weeks later a friend of mine, CalabasasPacker, took me geocaching. And that was that.